Best food in the state

[daviscubed.livejournal.com]

Yelp has just released its "Best 100 Places To Eat" (in the USA), and coming in at #32 is.... Dave's Fresh Pasta!  It ranks as best in New England.  And apparently New England Yelpers are tough, as there were only 3 other New England places (2 from Maine, one from RI) in the top 100.

ETA: Forgot to add the link: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2014/02/yelp-data-reveals-top-100-places-to-eat-bookmark-these-babies-now.html

Comments

[rmd.livejournal.com]

I don't actually buy much of their pasta or sauces, but *damn* they make a good sandwich.

(My Brown School card pays for itself at the Dave's sandwich counter...)

[ron_newman]

I think of that as a place to shop for food, not a place to eat. Is there anywhere to sit down?

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

3-4 tables in the window, and ~3 more outside in nice weather. The sandwich counter does a brisk business at lunchtime!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

And on nice days, there's tables a block up the street in the park.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

It looks to me like the list is strongly skewed towards California, Yelp's birthplace.

[totient]

And yet Dave's Fresh beats out the French Laundry by two spots! Take that, California!

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I eat at Dave's when I feel lazy about lunch, want a nice sandwich, and need to buy a dozen eggs on my way home; I planned all sorts of ridiculous things to wind up traveling to California for a meal-of-a-lifetime class meal event at French Laundry. I'd give yelp a bit more credibility on this list if they tried having some plausible categories instead of ranking Dave's and French Laundry on the same list...

[totient]

I think I was a little too subtle with my sarcasm there. Personally I'd give yelp more credibility on this list if I gave them any credibility on the data the list is based on.

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

+1 or "like" (whatever works best here)

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

I was a little too sleepy with the brain. Yeah.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

Except that would just make it like every other of the hundreds of top restaurant lists. At least this one is a little unique.

[cos]

Proportional to population, it looks very skewed towards Hawaii. Maybe because people eating in Hawaii and reviewing online are just generally in a better mood and having better days than average? :)

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

I would have to say yes to that. At least, that was my experience. :)

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

Given that Yelp sells "we will fix your bad rating with us", anything they publish is worth very little to me.

That being said, Dave's does make a good sandwich.